TOPS 5th Grade Weekly Newsletter

I hope you had a fabulous week! Before we all take off for the weekend I wanted to send out an overview of what to expect next week, some resources to help you, and a fun riddle!

Preparing for next week:

Please make sure you take time today, while planning for next week, to look over your Class Connect schedule to ensure you attend all required live sessions.

Please make sure you look through the grade book and work on any lessons in which you have a M. This means missing. Once you complete the OLS assignment the grade will automatically update. If it is a TGA in USA Test Prep, please email me and I will update your grade.

By 9/21/18 you should have completed the following assessments

Literature Unit 1Lesson 10 Part 1 and 2 (8/29 and 9/12 Start Date Excused)

Reading Q1 TGA1 and 2- USA Test Prep

Composition Unit 1(8/29 and 9/12 Start Date Excused)

Composition Unit 1: Writing a Memoir Check in USA Test Prep

GUM Unit 1(8/29 and 9/12 Start Date Excused)

Spelling Unit 1-5 (8/29 Excused from Unit 1 &2 and 9/12 Start Date Excused )

Vocabulary Unit 1 & 2 (8/29 Excused from Unit 1 and 9/12 Start Date Excused )

You need to have started:

Literature Unit 2

Composition Unit 2

GUM Unit 2

Vocabulary Unit 3

All grades will be updated in the grade book by 3 PM on Friday 9/21

Literature assignments on the Daily Plan

On your Daily Plan once you complete the open Literature unit, it will list your Literature assignment as the You Need To Make A Choice unit. please DO NOT do this unit. We will do our Novel Units later in the year. If you have any questions please let me know.

Literature Unit 2 Lessons 1-11: September 10th- October 5th

Literature Unit 3 Lessons 1-4: October 15th- October 19th

Teacher Graded Assignment:

Reading Q1 TGA 1 & 2 are both due and grades are updated in the grade book

Composition Unit 1 Check-In- due and grades are updated in the grade book

5th Reading Readiness Assessment grades are updated in the grade book

Reading Q1 TGA 3- Due on 9/28/18

Composition Unit 2 Check-In- Due on 9/28/18

Last Week's Riddle:

I eat, I breathe, I grow, and I die, but I'm not alive. what am I?

Answer: A Fire

Thank you Gage Stasko for the awesome riddle!

Weekly Riddle:

Each Friday I will send out a Riddle. Please come to class the following week with your answer.

This week's riddle is courtesy of Amazing 5th Grader Isabella Bridges!!!

I do what I’m told in the morning, I do what I’m told at night, but I still can’t escape your scold.

I will share the answer next week in class! If you have a riddle you would like to share in the newsletter, please email it to me.

Have an amazing weekend!

We will continue to work with decimals this week. You will be using your decimal knowledge to solve story problems. If you have any questions or are struggling, please email me or stay after class connect to ask questions. I’m here to help.

1. OLS Lessons: Unit 6 Lessons 8,10,11
2. 5th Math TGA 2: Found in USA Test Prep, be sure to complete the entire assignment.
3. 5th Math Fraction PreTest in USA Test Prep, do your best by yourself, you will get a completion grade
4. Math Facts Pro Multiplication Fact Practice: Students are expected to login and practice facts at least 3 times a week. Be sure to complete the practice to the very end until you see the results page. There are 50 facts. Knowing multiplication facts with quick recall is vital. Here is the login information.

• https://mathfactspro.com/
• Teacher Username: TOPSMath
• First Name and Last Name with space in-between (as it appears in your OLS)
• Password: Student ID

Looking Back –

We have finished our second full unit as we studied the ecosystems and environmental factors that provide the necessary ingredients for some life to flourish while other species may be threatened with extinction. These topics have given us opportunities to look at fascinating topics such as global warming, the water and carbon cycles, and what volcanic activity may mean for the future. In the Looking Ahead section, we turn our attention to how animals and plants come to look and act the way that they do.

Lessons for Sept. 17-21: Unit 2, Lesson 5: Changing Environmental Conditions, & Lesson 6: Unit 2 Review and Assessment

TGA #1 is due 9/24! Get it done by Monday!

Key Vocabulary: limiting factor, environmental conditions, climate, ecology

Looking Ahead -

Inherited traits will jump into the exploration of how some traits are passed from parents to offspring. Did you inherit your father’s nose or the color of your mother’s eyes? You will be reading from the Harcourt text on pages A50-57 and completing some interesting investigations of your personal traits using nothing more than your observations and journal. Have fun with this!

Assignments for the week of Sept. 24-28: Unit 3, Lesson 1: Inherited Traits, Part 1 and Unit 3, Lesson 2: Inherited Traits, Part 2

Key vocabulary: inherited trait, dominant, recessive, gene, probability

Creature of the week – Let’s check out a fierce looking predator this week - the African bush viper (Atheris squamigera). Do some research before our next class and share what you have learned with your classmates!

Hello 5th graders, I had such a great time with you last week participating in our “Celebrate Freedom” activities. This week you will be completing the following lessons in unit 3:

· Lesson 6 – What’s a Puritan?

· Lesson 7 – Waterways or Waterwheels

We will spend time in class on Wednesday learning about the Massachusetts Bay Colony as well as looking at the geography of the eastern seaboard of the United States. We will make some predictions about the economy based on the geography of that region.

We are using GoFormative surveys each week for our TGA’s in social studies. Please be sure you are attending live Class Connect or watching the recording as soon as possible so that you can be successful and receive credit. Also, be sure to check the grade book to see if you have any missing assignments (M’s). I’ll see you in class on Wednesday!

Every week you will check the grade level newsletter to see which Music Studio lessons to complete. Just open Unit 1, Lesson 1 in the OLS and click the link to take you to Music Studio! (This is why everything in the OLS for Music EXCEPT for Unit 1, Lesson 1 has been marked skipped.) :)

Music Studio lessons for the week of 09/24:

• Section 2, Unit 1, Lesson 4 - Sing with So
• Section 1, Unit 1, Lesson 5 - Bluegrass Sounds
• Section 2, Unit 1, Lesson 5 - Sing a Pentatonic Song
• Music Studio Assessment
  

Video showing how to get into Music Studio and find the lessons and Assessments page:

https://k12inc-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/jbass_k12_com/EY4-uSYFegNLtaz1rcTZSREBUeo-TGm17c0ljqPp9zujaQ?e=niWThx

Video showing how to find just the Assessments page in Music Studio:

https://k12inc-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/jbass_k12_com/EYmNdB6FSztOuCqZsifUT08B9AfPyx9ShL5japwEilZXQw?e=aul3Bx

Reminder - Mrs. Bass updates the gradebook every Friday afternoon. :)

Happy Friday!!! I know yall have been busy working hard in your lessons this week. In art next week we will continue learning about "Native Peoples of the North". In Health we will continue working in Unit 9. This is about “Emotional Well-Being”. In October we will talk about anti-bullying. In PE you will practice your Heart rate taking skills.

Lessons for this week:

Art: Unit 2 Lesson 4 & 5

Health: Unit 9 Lesson 2 & 3

PE: Unit 1 Lesson 6

TGAs:

Art:

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The Hive:

We will continue to have Kahoot in the main room. Thank you LCs that have helped monitor chat and the rooms this week. I know it is wild in there but, it's recess. I hope everyone has had a blast!!!

Email: bwatt@texasonlineprep.org
Phone: 682.593.1514
Twitter: @TOPSMrsWatt